mukpin.com Archives - 21 April 2013, Sunday

Bitfloor, number four Bitcoin-based exchange, shuts down for good on wednesday evening, bitfloor, the number four bitcoin-based exchange (behind mt. gox, btc-e, and bitstamp) announced that it is closing its doors âindefinitely.â âunfortunately, our us bank account is scheduled ...

OKCupid partners with Coinbase to become the latest Web service to support Bitcoin the world and his brother â wellâŚthe media, at least â has gone bitcoin crazy in recent times, and the latest company to cash in on that attention ride that wave is dating site okcupid, which is n...

if youâre a game developer and you want to make some coin â bitcoin that is â youâre in luck. heyzap, which makes tools to help game developers encourage players promote their games (by checking in or earning badges, for instance), announced last night that it would offer the ...

Why VCs Love The Bitcoin Market as a vc, my interest in the bitcoin ecosystem is not ideological but mercenary. i see the opportunity for bitcoin to disrupt multi-billion-dollar markets, but in doing so also create new big markets. there are three key markets in bitcoin: wallet. holdi...

Coinbase phishing attacks are the 3rd Bitcoin security problem this week a second bitcoin wallet service is facing security issues today after it was discovered that you can find coinbase user information simply by searching on google . the company warned users yesterday that a phishi...

Bitcoin prices plummet following Mt. Gox outage & Instawallet hacking the price of bitcoin has been on a tear, with prices surging from $100 a few days ago to $147 earlier today. but an outage of the largest bitcoin market and an unrelated bitcoin hacking incident have knocked the pri...

at the end of february, bitcoins hit an all-time trading high of just over $33. that suddenly looks like chump change, with the value of bitcoins today moving past $100. you can see nearly real-time changes in the value of bitcoins at coinlab and track the currency's steady rise over ...

paypal will phase out payments made by singapore users to foreign-registered non-profit organizations (npos) and charities from march 21, 2013. this move is due to the lack of the necessary remittance license it needs to facilitate such services, as required by local regulator monetar...

US regulator: Bitcoin exchanges must comply with money-laundering laws the federal agency charged with enforcing the nation's laws against money laundering has issued new guidelines suggesting that several parties in the bitcoin economy qualify as money services businesses under us la...

ever since the bitcoin cryptocurrency first launched and achieved initial success, institutional investors and hedge fund managers have secretly sought a regulated investment vehicle for bitcoin placements. malta-based exante ltd. has the solution with their new bitcoin fund. âi hop...

Domain registrar and Web host Namecheap begins accepting payment via Bitcoin last week, virtual currency bitcoin hit an all-time high after passing the $32 mark for its us dollar exchange rate, and now it has gained a significant new backer with domain host and registrar namecheap now...

Bitcoin Exchange Deal Repatriates Assets To U.S. although the deal for mt. gox bitcoin exchange and coinlab to partner on u.s. customer business was brokered by seattle-based coinlab, it would not have been possible without a solid and willing financial institution in the united state...

Bitcoin reaches an all-time trading high of over $33 after rising steadily over the last several months, bitcoin has reached an all-time high, according to data on bitcoin charts. as of this writing, mt. gox, the most popular bitcoin trading site (which announced on wednesday that its...

In bid for credibility, largest Bitcoin exchange moves to Silicon Valley the world's leading bitcoin exchange, mt. gox, has announced a partnership with the silicon valley startup coinlab. under the agreement, coinlab will handle mt. gox's american operations, which account for a larg...

Bitcoin prices hit record high after Mt. Gox exchange agrees to move to the U.S. virtual currency bitcoin has hit new highs in value after mt. gox, the largest bitcoin exchange, struck a deal to let startup coinlab handle its u.s. operations. japanâs mt. gox is the largest exchange ...

Uber officially launches in Singapore after four weeks of testing in its first Asian city uber has officially come to singapore. the company made the announcement in a post after four weeks of âsecret ubersâ roaming the streets of this city-state. the launch was celebrated with a ...

After employees opt to be paid in Bitcoin, the Internet Archive asks for donations in the digital currency the internet archive on thursday made a bold announcement: the organization is considering giving all its employees the option to be paid in bitcoin. the move is apparently in re...

kim dotcom yesterday announced that the mega storage service is now accepting payment via bitcoins, an encrypted, peer-to-peer digital currency that isn't backed by any government. while mega allows free access to 50gb of storage, there are payment plans allowing anywhere from 500gb t...

Mega update: Dotcomâs service now accepts Bitcoin, will expand into email, chat, voice, video, and mobile kim dotcom knows how to stir up a storm on twitter. on saturday, he announced bitcoin support for his cloud storage service and also sent out a slew of tweets suggesting mega is...

Y Combinator-backed Coinbase now selling over $1M Bitcoin per month customers of coinbase, a platform for buying and selling the digital currency, have bought or sold more than $1 million worth of bitcoin in the past 30 days. âthereâs an incredible amount of demand for people who ...

Government Ban On Bitcoin Would Fail Miserably in a blog post last week at unqualified reservations, the author described a fictitious account of how bitcoin dies because a âdoj indictment is unsealedâ naming any and all btc exchange operators as criminal defendants and the âbtc...

as various tech companies report their fourth-quarter 2012 earnings numbers this week, so are two gray-market, bitcoin-based casinosâand one is turning profits in the hundreds of thousands of dollars after only six months of being in business. recently, both satoshidice and bitzino ...

Uber finally drives into Asia as the private car service begins testing in Singapore uber, the private car hire service that has taken the us by storm, has ramped up its global expansion plans after stepping into asia for the first time after launching in singapore. the move comes 11 ...

it is earnings season on wall street and it is reporting season for some of the leading bitcoin casino operators. three significant bitcoin-related gambling sites have reported their earnings and statistics for calendar year 2012. some of the data is fairly revealing giving us a fasci...

PayPal Assault On File-Sharing Sites Makes Business Case For Bitcoin bittorrent and bitcoin were made for each other. an article on torrentfreak reports that paypal is requiring private bittorrent tracking sites to provide them free access for purposes of monitoring user content for p...

Extremely critical Ruby on Rails bug threatens more than 200,000 sites hundreds of thousands of websites are potentially at risk following the discovery of an extremely critical vulnerability in the ruby on rails framework that gives remote attackers the ability to execute malicious c...

Bitcoin-based gambling to expand in 2013 last year, we wrote about satoshi dice, a bitcoin-based online "slot machine." this month, at least one company hopes to introduce bitcoin-based poker. the move could help to re-open online poker to american gamblers in the face of vigorous eff...

Bitcoin going mainstream? Exchange approved to operate as a bank bitcoin central, a bitcoin exchange that is popular in the eurozone, says it has secured approval from regulators to operate as a bank under french law. the announcement could be another sign of the cryptocurrency's grow...